I've been surprisingly successful with the gtkmm porting work that I'm doing for The Written Word. gtkmm,
glibmm, and libsigc++ now build with the SUN Forte CC, AIX xlC, IRIX MipsPro, and Tru64 C++ compilers, as well as g++ and the Intel
compiler. libsigc++ is quite a template test case, so that's a major improvement compared to […]

After Hubert Figuiere mentioned it a while ago on Planet Gnome, I found a cheap SMC2835W 802.11g card on ebay, and am relieved to find that it works. It's a lot better than my 802.11b ELSA Vianect MC-11.
The only trick is to copy-and-rename the /Driver/smc2835w.arm file from the supplied CD, to /usr/lib/firmware/isl3890 (on debian linux) […]

We had a Berlin kind of weekend in Munich.
Saturday at the Reithalle to hear Wladimir Kaminer read some new pieces. I like his short stories - stuff just happens, he doesn't dwell on anything, and then the story ends. Afterwards they cleared the chairs away to have a Russendisko - lively Russian ska/punk music. But […]

This week I am doing some freelance work for The Written Word who are paying me to (try to,
sometimes) port libsigc++, glibmm, and gtkmm to various crufty brands of Unix and their compilers, starting with SUN's Forte C++
compiler.
The Written Word provide pre-built packages of various free/open-source software, with a convenient package-management system. I think there […]

I've done some work on munichblogs.com, berlinblogs.com, and planet.gnome-de.org over the last few days. Now the front page of munichblogs.com filters some blogs, so it only shows entries with the words Munich, Muenchen, and M�. That's because those blogs often have techy stuff that's not relevant to a general Munich audience. This is possible thanks […]

Testing whether planet filters on the category name as well as the title and body.
Hmm, it seems that most blog feeds don't contain the category names of the items anyway.

I had GNOME conference calls last evening and the evening before.
The GNOME Foundation Board's old members handed over to the new members, so we had many people on the call. We have to mute when not talking, but I couldn't unmute after a while, so did my replying on irc. I'm not a fan of […]

I have spent the last week making last minutes additions and changes to the gtkmm API before the GNOME 2.9 API freeze, and now I can relax a bit.
Bryan Forbes has been very helpful, and Daniel Holbach found some missing stuff in the glibmm Option-parsing API. However, I think most gtkmm developers still don't understand […]

I should mention that I am back in Munich for the long-term, yet again, since the start of the month.
It was difficult to be away from home, but I am glad I discovered Berlin. I really like Munich, and it offers a far better quality of life than anywhere in Britain, but Berlin is bigger, […]

My personal list of wonderful GNOME-and-related progress in 2004. It's been a good year:

GTK 2.6 added new API that we really wanted, really quickly. Though lots of people worked really hard on this, I believe that Matthias Clasen has been a major organisational and coding factor. Red Hat was very smart to hire him. […]